Court

Synopsis

A sewage worker’s dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is arrested and accused of performing an inflammatory song, which may have incited the worker to commit suicide. The trial unfolds in a lower court, where the hopes and dreams of the city’s ordinary people play out. Forging these fates are the lawyers and judge, who are observed in their personal lives beyond the theatre of the courtroom.

India / 2014 / 116 minutes / Marathi, Hindi, English & Gujarati

Orizzonti Award for Best film Venezia 2014

Lion of the future Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film Venezia 2014